Eulagisca macnabi is a scale worm that occurs in the Antarctic Ocean, the Amundsen Sea and off the South Orkney Islands at depths of about 300 to 1500m. [2]

Eulagisca macnabi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Clade: Pleistoannelida
Subclass: Errantia
Order: Phyllodocida
Family: Polynoidae
Genus: Eulagisca
Species:
E. macnabi
Binomial name
Eulagisca macnabi
Pettibone, 1997[1]

Description

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Eulagisa macnabi most likely has 15 pairs of elytra that have a marginal fringe of papillae. It is brown-pigmented, especially on bases of parapodia and elytrophores. Lateral antennae are inserted terminally on anterior margin of prostomium. The notochaetae are distinctly thicker than the neurochaetae, but bidentate neurochaetae are absent.[2]


References

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  1. ^ Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2020). World Polychaeta database. Eulagisca macnabi Pettibone, 1997. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=327571
  2. ^ a b Pettibone, Marian H. 1997. Revision of the scaleworm genus Eulagisca McIntosh (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) with the erection of the subfamily Eulagiscinae and the new genus Pareulagisca. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 110(4): 537–551.